Sometimes I want to see what's in a pet (or deb) package before installing it. It's not hard to do manually, but takes a few steps. These scripts streamline the process, creating and opening a temporary directory with the package contents so you can see what's there (and install parts of it manually, if desired).

The last line opens the directory in your file manager (SpaceFM in my case). Change spacefm to rox or whatever FM you use, save the script in, say, /usr/local/bin, and give it execute permissions. It uses pet2tgz, which I think is standard in pups (in /usr/bin), but I'll attach it below for anyone that might not have it.

Again, the last line opens the directory in your file manager (SpaceFM in my case). Change spacefm to rox or whatever FM you use, save the script in, say, /usr/local/bin, and give it execute permissions. This uses dpkg-deb, which I think is standard in pups (in /usr/bin), but I'll include it below for anyone that might not have it.

I added these scripts to the right-click menu in my SpaceFM, or they could be used from the command line, followed by the filename of the pet or deb package.

what is that missing...I have peazip running on some pretty old distros? Just curious.
Peazip is a bit of a lump but wins for browsing say a pup_xxx.sfs. I can do it in xarchive using 7za backend but of course it displays every file rather than just one level so is s-l-o-w. Its like the windows equivalent...super fast for grabbing a file from an sfs....and can even browse down into initrds.... simpler than on linux that one

Back to topic... yes I agree to simply view contents unpacking seems a little odd...ok if small, but large archives such as sources can get messy.

Sorry cimarron if you got the wrong sort of attention here..... it happens sometimes.

As I said, I often like to do more than just look, so extracting makes sense for me. I'll pull out the parts I want and install them manually, or edit a script before installing, etc.

I like xarchiver a lot. These pet and deb scripts are nice for quick one-click access to the package contents, though. And there's no cleaning up when you're done messing with the extracted contents, since the scripts open the packages in a tmp directory.

I'm happy with Xarchiver. And the scripts I posted above work great for extracting and examining pet and deb packages (at least the smaller ones I use most of the time). I can run them with a click from within SpaceFM, quicker and easier than using a separate archiver application.

They are as efficient and do the same as Peazip in about 1/4 of the size.

well they do not descend through folder hierarchies as I mentioned which to me it the raison d'etre of using peazip over smaller extractors and saves a lot of time with large archives. Try wading through 5000 files in a gtk interface after its taken 2 minutes to load.

They are as efficient and do the same as Peazip in about 1/4 of the size.

well they do not descend through folder hierarchies as I mentioned which to me it the raison d'etre of using peazip over smaller extractors and saves a lot of time with large archives. Try wading through 5000 files in a gtk interface after its taken 2 minutes to load.

An easy way to see the contents of the .pet packages is to rename them, from filename.pet to filename.pet.tar.gz or filename.tar.gz . After that if you click on them XArchive opens these compressed files showing their contents.

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